LONDON: Tottenham striker Harry Kane said his head has not been turned by speculation linking him with a move to Bayern Munich as the England captain prepares for a huge few months for club and country.
Kane failed to engineer a move to Manchester City last year and has just over 18 months left on his contract at Tottenham.
Bayern are rumored to be preparing a bid for the 29-year-old to succeed Robert Lewandowski as the German champions’ center-forward.
“I’m focusing on Tottenham Hotspur and trying to do our best,” said Kane as he faced the media ahead of Spurs’ Champions League clash with Eintracht Frankfurt on Wednesday.
“For sure Bayern are a top, top club but all my concentration is on Tottenham.”
Kane faces a brutal schedule before the end of the year with Tottenham having 10 more games before the break for the World Cup in November.
England boss Gareth Southgate admitted at the weekend he expects to lose more players to injury ahead of the tournament in Qatar due to the demands put on his squad.
But Kane said he cannot hold anything back as he tries to fire Tottenham into the Premier League title race and reach the knockout stages of the Champions League.
“I feel like whenever you think about injuries, whenever you think about getting injured, it almost has the wrong effect,” he added.
“I go into every game trying to give 120 percent for the team and that’s just the way football is. Sometimes you can be unfortunate and pick up injuries.
“From my point of view, I do a lot of stuff, not just at the club but away from the club, to make sure I recover well and put myself in the best physical condition I can to not get injured. But, of course, we know in football, anything can happen.”
Kane has scored eight goals in nine Premier League games this season, but his start to the campaign has been overshadowed by Erling Haaland’s blistering beginning to his Manchester City career.
The Norwegian’s arrival at the Etihad killed off any talk of Kane moving to City and Haaland already has 20 goals for the English champions.
“He has had a fantastic start to the season and full credit to him but it is nothing I can control,” said Kane on his chances of catching Haaland in the race for the Golden Boot.
“I am concentrating on what I can do and helping the team in any way that is possible.”
Bayern a ‘top club’, but Kane focused on Spurs
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Bayern a ‘top club’, but Kane focused on Spurs
- Kane failed to engineer a move to Manchester City last year
- Bayern are rumoured to be preparing a bid for the 29-year-old to succeed Robert Lewandowski
Messi bags 899th goal as Miami down DC United
- The Argentine superstar’s 80th goal for Miami takes his career tally to 899, leaving him just one away from reaching the 900-goal milestone
WASHINGTON, United States: Lionel Messi moved to the brink of another goalscoring milestone as Inter Miami bagged their second win of the Major League Soccer season with a 2-1 victory over DC United on Saturday.
Messi, who scored twice in Miami’s Florida derby win over Orlando last week, bagged his third goal of the season with a deft chipped finish in the 27th minute at Baltimore’s M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore.
The Argentine superstar’s 80th goal for Miami takes his career tally to 899, leaving him just one away from reaching the 900-goal milestone.
The eight-time Ballon D’Or winner, who turns 39 in June, scored 672 goals for Barcelona earlier in his career and 32 at Paris Saint-Germain, with a further 115 international goals for Argentina.
Saturday’s win moved the reigning MLS champions up the Eastern Conference standings into third place with six points from three games.
Miami, who on Thursday were guests of President Donald Trump at a White House reception, took the lead in the 17th minute with a superb curling shot from the edge of the area by Messi’s Argentina team-mate Rodrigo De Paul.
Messi then doubled Miami’s lead 10 minutes later, latching on to a sublime through ball from Mateo Silvetti and dinking a first-time finish over the advancing DC United goalkeeper Sean Johnson.
United rallied after half-time, and were given hope when Israeli forward Tai Baribo pulled a goal back in the 75th minute.
Miami though were able to hold off United in the closing stages to seal victory.
